Job Post

Senior User Experience Designer

Meet CarGurusthe #1 visited online car shopping website in the US. At CarGurus, were building the worlds most trusted and transparent automotive marketplace where its easy to find great deals from top-rated dealers.

Founded in 2006 by Langley Steinert (co-founder of TripAdvisor), CarGurus is a technology company with a passion for data and its power to simplify every aspect of the car shopping experience. Using proprietary technology, search algorithms and innovative data analytics, we provide unbiased validation on pricing, dealer reputation and vehicle history.

We are looking for aSenior User Experience Designer to create usable, attractive, and high-performing user experiences for CarGurus products. The ideal candidate will be comfortable solving complex customer problems with agile teams that include engineers, product managers, analysts, and copywriters.

An online portfolio or access to samples of past work is required for applicants to this position.

What Youll Do

Collaborate with engineering and product leads to research, conceive, design, prototype, and ultimately test new features within the CarGurus consumer- and B2B-facing experiences

Create user flows, sketches, user flows, use cases, personas, and other product design and communication artifacts as needed, based on business requirements and constraints

Experienced in user research, usability testing and other methods of design validation

Can clearly and effectively present and communicate design processes, ideas, and solutions to teams and customers

Familiar with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Familiar with accessibility concerns

Familiar with Agile Scrum methodology

Able to demonstrate your understanding of design process and innovation with an online portfolio or samples of your work

Able to partner with product managers and engineering to balance technical, business, and customer requirements while applying a user-centric design approach

Able and willing to share your knowledge and experience with team members, and to learn from other team members

Experience with iOS/mobile design is a nice-to-have

Experience with e-commerce and/or digital marketplace products is a nice-to-have.

CarGurus Culture

At the core of our company culture is a spirit of innovation, curiosity and collaboration. True to our start-up roots, were nimble, flexible and hard-working. We have a great respect for testing and learning, and a healthy aversion to scheduling meetings to discuss meetings. Lunch is catered daily. Gym membership is free. Foosball and ping pong are played often. Now a publicly-traded company, were as committed as ever to cultivating the culture that got us here.

In addition to the US, CarGurus operates sites in Canada, the UK and Germany with other markets on the horizon. Our offices are located in Cambridge, MA, Detroit, MI and Dublin, Ireland. If youd like to learn more, please visitour careers page.